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An effort to kill off lawsuits against oil giants is gaining steam - my latest in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/c...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

On a tough day in Congress, loving this point of light! Messing up farmers is terrible for everyone, and going to court can still unlock solutions. Grateful to our courageous clients.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

It’s been an eventful first 92 days of Trump. My take on (some of) what’s different this time around. Stiff headwinds but we will stay the course. Happy Earth Day. www.propublica.org/article/eart...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

"It is hard to imagine a more sweeping agenda to make Americans less healthy," says Earthjustice President @abbiedillen.bsky.social in today's New York Times. "The most important thing to understand is that we are seeing a wholesale approach to eradicating environmental protections."

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

A federal court’s jurisdiction does not stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the defendants are subject to the court order, not where the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

submitted 76 days ago • 899 comments

Remarkable climate news from Germany! Conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) agreed in principle with the Green Party on plans for a massive increase in state borrowing for infrastructure and military. The Greens secured a €100 billion fund for climate and economic transformation.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

submitted 77 days ago • 506 comments

We're suing. Earthjustice is representing Inflation Reduction Act grant recipients & holding the Trump administration accountable for illegally freezing funds that were meant to benefit communities.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Just because you aren’t surprised doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read this extraordinary artifact of March 2025. Will be of special interest to all of you practicing that cult “climate change religion.”

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

By 5-4 vote, #SCOTUS denies Trump’s emergency application in foreign aid funding cases, but in a way that sends things back to the district court before the payments will have to be made: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 87 days ago • 38 comments

#ERCOT has been running at 85% clean today: 75% wind and solar and 10% nuclear. You would have been laughed out of the room if you predicted this 10 years ago. But the smallest interconnection in North America is cranking away at 75% variable resources. Beautiful sight. @gridstatus.io #EnergySky

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Policies can rarely deliver an immediate, positive change that people can see and feel every day. Excited that my colleagues have filed suit to defend congestion pricing in NYC!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Front page of today's NYT: "This is not the kind of stately tennis match of the usual switch-over in administrations. This is full on Fight Club," said @abbiedillen.bsky.social, President of Earthjustice, on the Trump admini's blitz on environmental regulations. Earthjustice is fighting back.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump administration is now deploying the FBI and trying to invoke criminal law to go after Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund recipients. Thank goodness prosecutors and courts are not going along so far.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Will SCOTUS provide a check to lawless spending freezes and back up lower courts that hold the Trump administration accountable? We will soon find out. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

As bad as it sounds.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

“and now, we are ready to do it again” The debt of gratitude to Mike Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies can never be repaid.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Clinton’s environmental justice E.O. was a durable directive that shaped federal data collection, analysis, decisions, and successful advocacy over 30 years. Losing this baseline commitment will make it even harder to prevent, much less, remedy wild health disparities along lines of race and income.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Dave Jones, former CA Insurance Commissioner absolutely nails it. The L.A. fires turned our insurance crisis into a full blown emergency. It won’t just be California that feels the pain. This will hit everyone. Financial accountability for fossil fuels companies has to be part of the solution.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

"While not surprising, it is no less alarming that the Trump administration wasted no time in rolling back overwhelmingly popular, life-saving policies," said Earthjustice President @abbiedillen.bsky.social We'll keep fighting in court to ensure we all have the protections we need and deserve.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ 🧵⤵️

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

I spoke to @weatherwest.bsky.social about the role of warming and "hydroclimate whiplash" in the L.A. fires and where we go from here: e360.yale.edu/features/dan...

submitted 135 days ago • 8 comments

All week I’ve been in a fugue state, grieving for friends and places and giving into a sense of doom for L.A. and California. This piece is so excellent. I hope everyone will read it. We can’t escape climate risk or rely on luck to save our cities. We CAN do the work to be infinitely more prepared.

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Just praying for all the people in Pacific Palisades and for the first responders trying to get people out.

submitted 144 days ago • 3 comments

Why does POTUS want to fast-track gas to power data centers? These Senators have it right: “Some of the world’s largest companies are leading the buildout of data centers and have demonstrated their ability to bring new clean energy onto the grid. We should not relieve them of that responsibility”

submitted 162 days ago • 2 comments

I have been reading Josh Marshall for 20 years. Rarely has he been righter. We need this badly. It's easy to understand why. There are people who could make it happen. It hasn't happened so far. A Big Pile of Money and Lawyering to Defend Trump’s Legal Targets. bsky.app/profile/josh...

submitted 165 days ago • 34 comments

Thanks for this great list @aimeewitteman.bsky.social !

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

People aren’t wrong. The conservative majority at SCOTUS is driving an extreme and unpopular agenda with shock-and-awe speed, and Trump-appointed lower court judges that were appointed for their ideology are eagerly assisting. The less bad news is:

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

OK friends, is it really impossible to edit a typo in your post? Just tried Skeets and couldn’t find an edit function.

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

NYT previewing strong findings findings on LNG exports from Secy. Granholm, including: 30% increase in wholesale gas prices in U.S.; displacement of more clean energy than coal abroad; and 1.5 gigatons in additional emissions annually by 2050. Rising GHG emissions in all 5 modeled scenarios.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Important reporting. This case is about a railroad that is proposed for the sole purpose of transporting waxy oil in Utah’s Uinta Basin to Gulf refineries. It’s meant to facilitate drilling by providing a path to market. It’s clear where the oil is headed and where it will be refined. 🧵

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

The trend line could get worse. Load growth should drive massive clean energy investment, but there’s a lot of momentum for new gas right now. Hearing that backsliding on gas is inevitable and OK, especially for data centers, because AI will somehow solve it all. I’d prefer to bet on a clean grid.

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Great piece on the big $$$ behind third-party funding of lawsuits against governments that try to protect citizens from predatory energy companies and environmental destruction. For the financial firms funding the lawsuits, it's like “gambler’s Nirvana: Heads I win, and Tails I do not lose."

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

Important thread about how this western NY fossil fuel company is using ratepayer dollars to fight policies that will lower energy bills for their customers and reduce climate pollution. Same old playbook. @govkathyhochul.bsky.social shouldn’t fall for it.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

The “Cancel Coal” case prevails in South Africa! Another landmark climate win for youth. So thrilled for Centre for Environmental Rights and the tremendous coalition that made this happen.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

These bans on cancer-causing chemical are a very big deal reflecting tireless work to highlight the dangers of TCE, amend the Toxic Substances Control Act, and litigate all through Trump I to give the law teeth. Now the fight goes back to the courts. @earthjustice.bsky.social will be there.

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

There can never be justice for Assad’s atrocities. But it matters that everyone knows, that the crimes are prosecuted, never forgotten. In 2016, the thought was: “when the day of justice arrives, we’ll have much better evidence than we’ve had anywhere since Nuremberg.” Hope that day is close

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

After being utterly denuded by the first Trump administration, the EPA has finally built itself back up & resumed doing serious enforcement of the law -- just in time for the second Trump administration to denude it again. apnews.com/article/epa-...

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments